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IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003
In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …, data of the German IT survey point towards the need to differentiate between types of IT investment. It is shown that …
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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...
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IT outsourcing in Finnish business
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Airaksinen, Aarno - 2008
This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...
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Advancing information technology and financial intermediation
Mannonen, Pekka - 2001
The whole financial sector has been under a remarkable structural change, and one of the major contributing forces has been the rapid advance in information processing based on digital technology. The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of advancing information and transaction...
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand … to study the effects of ethnic diversity. Many of these studies have appeared since the pioneering survey by Alesina and … La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. …
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How to fill the digital gap? The (limited) role of regulation
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Melani, Sauro - 2016
analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27 countries using panel data from 2004 to 2014 on the adoption, coverage and take … programmes. Results show that a 1% increase in the regulated price to access the old technology increases the adoption and the … service adoption. …
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